[-empyre-] another lurker

Maria Damon damon001 at umn.edu
Mon Jul 1 12:45:14 EST 2013


Hi Lucio!

On 6/30/13 12:08 PM, Lucio Agra wrote:
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>
> shy shy shy
> if you could see
> what it deserves to be
> what we wanna be
> brazilians... well
> no excuses but
> some of us
> have to lurk
> o t h e r w i s e...
> just kidding.
>
> *Lucio Agra - *Born in Recife, State of Pernambuco (1960); grew in 
> Petrópolis, State of Rio de Janeiro. Lives and works in São Paulo . 
> Graduated in Languages in UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), 
> concluded his Master's degree and Doctorate in Communication and 
> Semiotics in PUC-SP (Catholic University of Sao Paulo), including a 
> short period scholarship in TU Berlin, Germany. Professor at the 
> Department of Body Languages, PUC. Parallel to academic activity,  has 
> been developing artistic work involving thee fields: poetry, music and 
> performance. Collaborated with Renato Cohen (1956 -2003) since 1997 so 
> much artistically as as member of the teachers' team formed in PUC. As 
> a performer, developed research on german poet and artist Kurt 
> Schwitters's works (1887 -1948). Presented his "Ursonate" in 2000, 01, 
> 02, 03, 07 ,08 and 10. Developed, also, a performance "mix", sound 
> poetry and free improvised music with the groups (demo)lição (Paris, 
> Montevideo and São Paulo, 2007/08) and Orchestra Descarrego. Has 
> several digital poems published in magazines online and in paper. 
> Presented his works of electronic poetry in several national and 
> international events. As a performer, acted in several festivals 
> around the world (among recent ones, Finland, Czchec Repuplic and 
> Berlin's Month of Performance). Author of Selva Bamba (poems 1994), 
> History of the Art of the 20^th  century - Ideas and Movements (Essay, 
> 2006) and Monstrutivismo (essay, 2010). Just finished a new book, 
> about performance art, coming soon,
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> 2013/6/29 marcus bastos <bastos.marcus at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bastos.marcus at gmail.com>>
>
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>     message i received when trying to acces the INFINITY ENGINE
>     website. proud of being interested in content that may harm my
>     computer, this is all art should be!Inline image 1
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>
>     On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Lynn Hershman <lynn2 at well.com
>     <mailto:lynn2 at well.com>> wrote:
>
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>         New Project:INFINITY ENGINE will be film project consists of
>         an interconnected and intertwined landscape of feature film,
>         installation, performance, social sculpture, social media,
>         science, documentary and fiction.
>
>         The INFINITY ENGINE is the installation chapter of the
>         multiplatform INFINITY ENGINE film project. Both will  enact
>         narratives of a not too distant future in which organs can be
>         manufactured and banked, lost limbs can be regenerated from
>         the inside out, skin can be printed on an ink jet printer, and
>         human life can extend to 130 years . . . all of which expose
>         complex physical, psychological and philosophical
>         possibilities for human evolution and our newly programmable DNA.
>
>
>         Lynn Hershman Leeson an artist, educator and film maker.
>         She is a recipient of the 2010-2011 d.velop digital art
>         Lifetime Achievement Award, the most prestigious award in the
>         field of digital arts, as well as a  2009 Siggraph Lifetime
>         Achievement Award and a  2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
>         Foundation Fellowship.
>         Her four feature films- Strange Culture, Teknolust, Conceiving
>         Ada and !Women Art Revolution -- A Secret History are all in
>         distribution and screened at the Sundance Film Festival.
>         Toronto Film Festival and The Berlin International Film
>         Festival, among others ?Work by Lynn Hershman Leeson is
>         featured in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art
>         NewYork, the William Lehmbruck Museum, the ZKM (Zentrum fur
>         Kunst und Medientechnologie), the Los Angeles County Museum of
>         Art, The Tate Modern, The National Gallery of Canada, the
>         Walker Art Center and the University Art Museum, Berkeley, in
>         addition to the celebrated private collections.
>         Recently honored with grants from Creative Capital and the
>         National Endowment for the Arts, Nathan Cummings Foundation
>         and she is also the recipient of a Siemens International Media
>         Arts Award, the Flintridge Foundation Award for Lifetime
>         Achievement in the Visual Arts, Prix Ars Electronica, and
>         Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Prize for Writing and Directing.  A
>         catalogue and retrospective is being planned at the ZKM Museum
>         Karlsruhe and MdM Museum Salzburg in 2014.
>         Hershman Leeson is Professor Emeritus at the University of
>         California, Davis , was an A.D. White Professor at Large at
>         Cornell University, former Chair of the Film Department at the
>         San Francisco Art Institute and will be Distinguished Director
>         in 2013-14, at the New School for Social Engagement, New York.
>
>
>          ____________
>         From: empyre-bounces at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
>         <mailto:empyre-bounces at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
>         [empyre-bounces at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
>         <mailto:empyre-bounces at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>] on behalf of
>         rbuiani [rbuiani at gmail.com <mailto:rbuiani at gmail.com>]
>         Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 1:07 PM
>         To: soft_skinned_space
>         Subject: Re: [-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 103, Issue 21
>
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>         dear all,
>         greetings from another lurker ...since 2007!
>         I think I posted a couple of times, but usually i am shy when
>         it comes to sharing things publicly.  seeing a lot of familiar
>         names coming out of their "lurk-ness" is encouraging.
>
>         My name is Roberta Buiani, I am a researcher, activist and
>         media artist based in Toronto. I am the co-founder of the
>         ArtSci Salon at theFields Institute for Research in
>         Mathematical Sciences (University of Toronto) and act as
>         program advisor and, sometimes, curator, for the Subtle
>         Technologies Festival.
>         My work balances theoretical and applied research at the
>         intersection of science, technology and creative resistance.
>         My recent itinerant community project The Sandbox Project,
>         challenges concepts of sustainability in face-to-face and
>         online collaborations in network and social media
>         configurations. You can read my work in Fibreculture,
>         Invisible Culture, Cultural Studies and Digicult.
>         I am fascinated by anything small and/or invisible. I am
>         fascinated by viruses as biological, informational, and
>         cultural agents. waiting to hear when/if my book on this topic
>         will be published.   I also love insects. I have started a new
>         project on entomology, synthetic biology and sustainability.
>         let's see where this takes me. In the meantime, I am
>         increasingly enjoying the practice of insect rearing, an
>         activity I initiated to verify (actually to disprove) some
>         very hyped claims regarding the sustainability of entomophagy
>         (see the cicada craze in NJ). But this practice has turned out
>         to evoke much more complex issues: issues of care and affect,
>         eugenics, my anthropocentric biases etc...
>
>         you can find my projects here:
>         http://atomarborea.net
>
>         and my ento-blog here:
>         http://atomarborea.tumblr.com/
>
>         best to all!
>
>         roberta
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> www.myspace.com/lucioagra <http://www.myspace.com/lucioagra>
> http://contemporaryperformance.org/profile/LucioAgra
> Se vc tem urgência de falar comigo, me ligue no celular! É mais rápido!
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